Speed 1611
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item:- Armitt Library : A6632.1 image:- © see bottom of page |
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Map, uncoloured engraving, The Kingdome of Great Britain
and Ireland, scale roughly 36 miles to 1 inch, by John
Speed, 1611, published by Thomas Bassett, The George, Fleet
Street, and Richard Chiswell, The Rose and Crown, St Paul's
Churchyard, London, 1676.
The reverse of the map is pp.1 and 2; text in English. Included in The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain by John Speed. |
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Speed 1611 | |
| map feature:- | scroll cartouche & swash lettering & vignettes (LONDON, EDYNBURGH, etc) & coat of arms, royal & beasts (carrying the flags of England, Scotland, and Ireland) & compass rose & labelled borders (English) & up is N & scale line & dividers & lat and long scales (conical projection; longitude perhaps E from The Canary Islands?) & lat and long grid (1x1 degrees) & sea moire effect & galleons & sea monsters & coast shaded & rivers & lakes & relief & hillocks & forests (?perhaps, by a tree symbol) & county & settlements & inset map (THE ILES OF ORKNAY) | |
| inscription:- |
printed scroll cartouche, upper right of centre
THE KINGDOME OF GREAT / BRITAINE AND IRELAND / By I. Speed |
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| inscription:- |
printed lower right
Are to be sold by Tho : Bassett / in Fleet street, and Ric : Chiswell in St. Pauls Churchyard. |
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| inscription:- |
printed lower left
Performed by Iohn Speede |
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printed reverse, p.1
THE BRITISH ISLANDS, Proposed in one view in the ENGLISH MAP. With a General Description of GREAT-BRITAIN under the ROMANS. / CHAPTER I. / THE State of every Kingdom well managed by prudent Government, seems to me to represent a Humane Body, guided by the soveraignty of the Reasonable Soul : the Countrey and Land it self representing the one, The Actions and State Affairs the other. ... |
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printed with scale line, lower left
The Scale of Miles / Common Mill. / ... |
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| scale line:- | 80 miles = 57 mm | |
| longitude, Greenwich:- | 20d 45m E | |
| wxh, map:- | 514x380mm (about) | |
| scale:- | 1 to 2200000 ? (1 to 2258728 from scale line, wrongly assuming a statute mile) | |